The environment beneath the ice in McMurdo Sound is other-worldly. Literally. That's part of the reason we are studying it - because it provides one of the best terrestrial analogs to what things might be like on Europa. ARTEMIS has 3 active cameras on board, and has been busy capturing scenes of the world below during our missions. Some of these scenes are incredibly beautiful - I can now understand why Antarctic divers reverently call going beneath the ice "entering The Cathedral".

ARTEMIS flies under a school of fish while gazing up at the ice ceiling. It's amazing how the world below the ice can be so alien, and yet so the same - the fish look like birds underneath a bank of clouds.